Late at night, Shanbao sat in a sedan chair sent by the Wen family, and let those Han servants send him back to Dutingyi in a trance.

All his recent efforts had been rendered meaningless by a letter from Qi State, and in the end Wen Xianggong listed him as the leader of the Lantern Festival Poetry Society, which seemed to him more like a mockery than an honor.

The scene of the war between the Confucians that Shanbao imagined before did not happen, because Dajin was gone, and no matter what he said now, no matter how he provoked the conflict between Qi and Zhou, it would actually be meaningless - even if the civil war between the Han people broke out, the already extinct Dajin would not have any ability to benefit from it.

So Shanbao staggered away from the Wen family amid the faint cheers of the Han people and the singers.

"Daikin...... Oh my big gold......"

Like a wounded wolf, Zenpo sat in a sedan chair, covering his face with his hands and whimpering in a low voice.

"Who?"

The sedan chair suddenly stopped, and the angry shouts of Shanbao's two guards came from outside.

Seonho wiped his tears indiscriminately, and although he didn't know what the meaning was, he still wanted to keep Daikin's dignity - maybe this was the final dignity?

He straightened his collar, lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, and walked out.

In the dark alleyway, a man in a gorgeous white robe held a long knife and looked at him coldly.

There was also a very beautiful girl beside the man, but this girl also carried a long knife and had a cold face, even if Shanbao was not a good martial artist, he could see that this girl was definitely not a mediocre hand.

In addition to this man and a woman, there were several men in black behind them, each with a sword, and his face was not good.

The two Jurchen soldiers brought by Shanbao each drew their knives in their hands, and confronted the visitor viciously.

Those sedan chair drivers hired by the Wen family hid to the side early.

"Who are you?" Shanbao asked loudly, "Don't you know that this official is an envoy of Dajin?" How dare you intercept the messenger's car? ”

"Tartar coming? That's the right person to catch. ”

The corners of the white-robed man in the lead curled his mouth, and he said to the palanquin men with a little pride:

"In Xia Lu Wenzhao, on the order of Lord Xu, take the head of the dog Tartar, you can go, this side has nothing to do with you."

But he didn't think about it, a palanquin man heard this, took a step forward and said loudly: "The grass people are from Henan Province, Jiangbei, and more than 20 members of the whole family were killed by the Tartars. ”

Lu Wenzhao smiled even more cheerfully: "This benevolent brother, just wait a while." ”

Then he said to the beautiful woman in white: "Senior sister, get things done as soon as possible." ”

"You dogs!"

One of Zenho's guards roared angrily and swung his sword at the man in white.

Lu Wenzhao didn't care about the bright blade above his head, the beautiful woman beside him took a step forward, pulled out the long knife at a very fast speed, relying on the double advantage of the attack distance of the five-foot Miao knife and the attack speed of the knife drawing technique, the last hit came first, and cut the reckless Tartar with the head and waist knife in two.

The headless corpse took two more steps forward before it fell to the ground with a bang.

The bloody qi spread in the alley, the smile on Lu Wenzhao's face remained unchanged, and he kicked the head of the tartar that rolled under his feet to the side of the sedan chair man: "Take it, this is for you." ”

"Lord Xie Lu, the grass people treat the whole family and wish Lord Lu the Marquis of Wandai!"

Shanbao looked at these Han people acting with an unkind face, with a look of resentment.

This one named Lu Wenzhao is obviously a ruthless character, he doesn't care about saying his name in front of the sedan man, and obviously doesn't care about letting others know that he is the killer sent by Xu Shiliu to kill him.

In other words, he and Xu Shiliu behind him may still want others to know who they died in.

That's it, they're still acting!

Really if Shanbao is a fool, isn't it the way to the Duting Station where he can't see it?

Obviously, this palanquin man had already colluded with Lu Wenzhao, so he was waiting to leave the Wen Mansion and bring himself here, so that Lu Wenzhao could kill him.

"You dogs, you are really too deceitful!" Shanbao roared in a low voice: "Dajin should have set foot in Jiangnan and carved all of you dog minions alive!" ”

"Impotent rage." Lu Wenzhao commented disdainfully.

"But speaking of which, you do have a great idea."

He drew his knife and said with a sneer:

"Lao Tzu has changed his mind, Lao Tzu will not let you die comfortably, Lao Tzu will scrape you alive!"

……

The next day, Lin'an, the forbidden city.

The young Emperor Longdao walked back and forth in the vertical arch hall with his hands behind his back, looking a little uncalm.

Gong Wen Xianggong came to ask His Majesty to see him early this morning, but Emperor Longdao still didn't see him, but gave him some gold, silver, silk satin, and ginseng medicinal materials to show his respect for the old minister.

The emperor's mood is a little chaotic now.

A few days ago, the envoy of the Jin Kingdom came to see His Majesty and gave him an analysis of the current situation:

Da Zhou, who accepted the Jin State as a vassal, was actually the co-lord of the world.

But the position of this co-lord is actually not solid, externally, the Jin State and the Qi State are both subservient, and for him, the emperor, in fact, there is not much difference.

Within the Great Zhou, Xu Shiyang is the grandson-in-law of Wen Xianggong, Xu Shiliu is the closed disciple of Wen Xianggong, and Xu Shimei is the granddaughter-in-......law of Wen Xianggong, so the influence of the married Wen and Xu families in the Great Zhou is not necessarily lower than that of himself as the emperor.

As for other aspects, Wen Jifu is now the head of the most powerful civil official group, and his eldest son also occupies a high position in the court.

In terms of the army, the highest-ranking martial artist in the forbidden army was Tong Guan, who was promoted by Emperor Taishang, and two of the three leaders of the new army were ...... of the Xu family.

I have to say that although that Tartar is a barbarian, he really sees the problem very accurately.

For Emperor Longdao, the most dangerous enemy right now is actually the State of Qi, not the State of Jin.

When he was the crown prince, he could think about counterattacking Jiangbei and recovering his homeland for revenge, for the revitalization of the Great Zhou and other reasons, but when he became the emperor, everything had to be on the throne.

Those who can threaten the throne of the Great Zhou are the real enemies.

……

"What? That good is dead? ”

Wen Xianggong asked in surprise:

"What's going on?"

"I haven't found out yet, but yesterday the sedan chair man of your mansion who was in charge of sending Shanbao back to Dutingyi said that a group of black-clothed people stopped them on their way back to Dutingyi, killed Shanbao's two guards, and kidnapped Shanbao."

Bao Zheng replied steadily:

"This morning the official found Zenho's body in the grove outside the city, and the head was taken away, and the body was ...... The body was chopped up, and the pretendence of Lin'an Mansion said that this was not like the style of a professional executioner, but more like a ...... who randomly found a butcher who killed pigs, and the technique was very rough, and Xia Guan was planning to thoroughly investigate the case from this aspect. ”

"Is it necessary to investigate thoroughly?" Wen Xianggong asked: "You don't need to check the old man to know who instigated it." ”